“The worst thing is going to a makeup shop and trying to get your color tested, and then they turn around and tell you we don’t have your color. It makes you feel down. It makes you feel like… “am I not worthy for people not to have my color?” ﻿

My grandma used to give us bleaching cream – face whitening cream which had bleach in it – because being more fair over there is seen as more beautiful. And then my dad would say put on sunscreen before you go outside, so that you don’t end up looking really dark, because then no one is going to want to marry you.

“When I was maybe 13 or 14 I hated my freckles. I used to use a moisturized cream called ‘fade out’ to try and bleach my freckles, and I’d put loads of concealer over my freckles to try and get rid of them. That was my main thing.”

“I have big sisters, so they’re always ratting on me. When I was going through my angsty teen phase, they’d make comments about me wearing heavy eyeliner. And looking back on it, I don’t like it either.”

“Makeup can be brilliant, and it can bring out such creativeness in people. It can allow you to change, it can allow you to be artistic, but I think the thing with makeup is you need to allow yourself to still be a kid.”

“It wasn’t until a few years back that I decided to buy my first foundation. I think I was twenty-one, every other girl had it already, and I was like, oh my god it’s my first foundation. I didn’t feel pressured into it, but I saw that it can make you feel pretty and look pretty so yeah.”